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...mirrors, then orchids, Orlean writes: "I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty, but full of possibility." In other words, the exclusionary element of an obsession also implies what the obsession includes. In other words, tunnel vision takes in the tunnel...
More disturbing than the Staff’s position on Ashcroft, though, is its ludicrous call for the repeal of the Second Amendment. Individual gun rights have been a sacred element of American freedom since the colonial era, and no U.S. Congress in its right mind would ever choose to repeal this right...
...dualistic. "The information that has become available since the last [policy] meeting ... confirms that economic activity has been receiving considerable upward impetus from a marked swing in inventory investment," the Fed said in its statement. "Nonetheless, the degree of the strengthening in final demand over coming quarters, an essential element in sustained economic expansion, is still uncertain...
...outside input--it is bound to create crises like this one. It has no real means of self-correction. The system creates incentives for secrecy and cover-ups that are often just as bad as the crime. But none of that is on the table. In fact, a critical element for recovery--boards of inquiry composed of lay people, not just clergy--was not even mentioned in the text...
...activities are diffused ever more broadly, doubts about the fairness of the University’s exemption from local taxation increase. This concern was raised in the 1991 report of the Cambridge Mayor’s Committee on University-Community Relationships. “A unique element of the ‘town-gown’ linkage is that [the] benefits of the universities’ activities flow freely across local, state and national boundaries, while the impacts of institutional presence are felt almost exclusively in the local community,” the report stated. “An important...